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Watch now: How these Tucson teachers prepare for the school year

  • Susan Barnett
  • Aug 5, 2022
  • Aug 5, 2022 Updated Sep 13, 2022
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The 2022-23 school year started Thursday for most Tucson-area schools. Meet a few of the teachers at Douglas Elementary School as they prepared for the new wave of students.

Susan Barnett

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For some teachers and subs, TUSD to provide stipends, increase pay

For some teachers and subs, TUSD to provide stipends, increase pay

Some substitute teachers and Exceptional Education staff will see bumps in their pay this school year as TUSD deals with hard-to-fill vacancies.  

Mentoring, paid tuition used to cut into Arizona teacher shortage

Mentoring, paid tuition used to cut into Arizona teacher shortage

Nearly 26% of teacher vacancies went unfilled last year in Arizona, and more than half of the positions were filled by teachers who did not meet the state’s standard certification requirements, according to a survey.

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